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This study aims to speculate on how human isolation and violence mass-produced through the structural contradiction in Japanese society was reproduced in the minority lives as shown in movies directed by Choi Yang Il. This study gave focus to minority who were considered weak in Japanese society in movies produced in the early period of director Choi's career in the 1980s. The subjects of this study were <Mosquito on the 10th Floor> and <ASUKA gang of flower>. These films depicted different aspects of the minority due to the structural contradiction in Japanese society. In <Mosquito on the 10th Floor>, a policeman who is in a higher place in society is reduced to a robber who is in the minority of society. This indicates a change in status moving from a higher level to a lower one. In <ASUKA gang of flower>, a girl who was minority moved up and became part of a majority class. Choi Yang-Il explored human isolation based on the nature of the drop or rise in class through movement. Choi Yang Il considered a violent minority used as a means to overcome human isolation as an attack on the structural contradiction in society. He configured minorities inherent in the Japanese as violence derived from the structural contradictions in capitalism.

마이너리티(minority), 자본주의(capitalism), 폭력(Violence), 인간소외(Human isolation), 최양일(Choi Yang Il), 자본주의(Capitalism)